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Eastern New Orleans neighborhood commission fee on Saturday ballot

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Voters in several eastern New Orleans neighborhoods will decide Saturday (Nov. 16) whether to add a new annual fee to residential tax bills that could raise $371,000 next year for a neighborhood commission that promotes beautification and economic development projects.
(The Times-Picayune)

Voters in several eastern New Orleans neighborhoods will decide Saturday (Nov. 16) whether to add a new annual fee to residential tax bills that could raise $371,000 next year for a neighborhood commission that promotes beautification and economic development projects.

If approved, the new parcel fee would range from $5 to $10 and finance the East New Orleans Neighborhood Advisory Commission. Residential property owners within 52 precincts separated from the rest of the city by the Industrial Canal and the Intracoastal Waterway would see it on their annual tax bills for the next four years. Voters would have to agree in 2017 to any extension.

Under the proposal, the city could opt to keep 1 percent of the proceeds as a "collection fee."

ENONAC sought the extra parcel fee last year, but voters resoundingly rejected it in December. The commission resurrected the proposed fee in July, and the City Council agreed in August to put it on Saturday's ballot.